Table 4 Isolated organism from chest tube tip cultures and postoperative infections
From: Diagnostic value of routine chest tube tip culture in surgery for noninfectious lung disease
Bacteria | Positive chest tube tip culturesa | Postoperative infection | Type of postoperative infection | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
SSI | Pneumonia | Empyema | |||
Coagulase-negative staphylococci | 32 | 9 | 2 | 7 | 0 |
Staphylococcus aureusb | 5 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 2 |
Corynebacterium species | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Enterococcus faecalis | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
Enterococcus faecium | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
Streptococcus mitis group | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Klebsiella pneumoniae | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
Enterobacter cloacae complex | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |